The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-12-15

1872, 100 enterprising citizens were
battling for livelihood, but to-day 5000
people possess happy homes in the
county.
The COW is the acknowledged mort
gage litter of modern renown.
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Those whose experience are safe crl-
terions furnish unrebuttable arguments
that graded stock raising in this county
is the key to their financial success.
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Thousands of cattle feed upon our
pisairiesBeach summer that come from
the range in excellent condition for
slaughter, upon no other feed than
grass. s.
The amount of improvements
throughout the county in the way of
farm buildings exceeds that of any pre-
yious year by SO per cent. =,
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Stevens county has never experience
ed a boom. What she has acquired
\ Che line of real estate de velop ements
las been by no fillibustering but in a
manner that indicates stability and we'll
merited prosperity.
For school.houses: There are
more than forty browning as many
knobs, in every section OF the county.
A good foundation has been laid for
the future as well as present educa
ton of our children. The special
advantages offered 10y the high-grade
schools IN the Villages of Norris and
Hancock are second to none similar
in the state and always ahead of the,
needs, though at our present rate of
growth it can easily enough be
asserted that they will soon be in
adequate. More will grow from
them. To the proper support and
maintenance of these schools for
each year little less than twenty
thousand dollars are necessary. And
no dollars OF all our expenditures are
more willingly parted with. sx
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In the same thought with school.
houses come churches, and they too
form an attractive feature of our
growth from frontier rudeness to the
present state of advancement in all
things essential to happiness and
prosperity. All the. active and
Jealous denominations are represent
ed within our borders and the spiri-
tual needs Of ourspopulation are admi-
nistered to by able expounders of the
truths of Christianity.
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Stevens County presents all the
inducements to cultured and intelli.
gent home-seekers and sooner or
later, without the artificial stimulus
Of booming, they must and will be
recognized.
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Our lakes abound in toothSome and
gamey fish, and myriads of wild fowl
frequent theiEattraciive waters. Our
undulating prairie is the home of the
Pinnated Grouse-s'Prairie Chicken"
and offers the sportsman as we'll as
the resident much profitable and
pleasant recreation.
AS for our climate!-It is Mime
sota's-the lungs of America, as Il
distinguished citizen aptly calls it, and
nothing more need be said. The
attestation of thousands who repair
hitherward annually, seeking the
boon Of health, were they necessary,
would corroborate all that the most
ardent could say on the subject.
ClearfieId,
IS station on the Browns Valley
branch in the western part of Stevens
county miles from Morris. A post
office, an elevator and wood yard
constitute the only business institu-
lions Of the place. Its importance
depends upon the large amount of
wheat handled by the elevator there.
"A. M. Cummings, post master and
elevator agent.
DonneIlv.